Triple

T17065695
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stephen Lang E414080 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Speed of Darkness
The Speed of Darkness is a play by Steve Tesich that explores the unraveling of an American family's life and ideals amid the lingering psychological and moral fallout of the Vietnam War.
E1248793 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: The Speed of Darkness | Statement: [Stephen Lang, notableWork, The Speed of Darkness]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Speed of Darkness
Context triple: [Stephen Lang, notableWork, The Speed of Darkness]
  • A. The Speed of Darkness
    The Speed of Darkness is a 1968 poetry collection by Muriel Rukeyser that explores themes of war, identity, and social justice through experimental and politically engaged verse.
  • B. Set in Darkness
    Set in Darkness is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, set in Edinburgh and blending a murder investigation with political intrigue around the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament.
  • C. After the Dark
    After the Dark is a 2013 philosophical science-fiction thriller film that explores moral dilemmas through a series of apocalyptic thought experiments conducted by a high school philosophy class.
  • D. The Light That Blinds
    "The Light That Blinds" is a song by American metal band Shadows Fall, known for its melodic thrash metal style and prominence on the album *The War Within*.
  • E. Out of the Dark
    Out of the Dark is a collection of essays by Helen Keller in which she reflects on socialism, social justice, and her political beliefs.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: The Speed of Darkness
Triple: [Stephen Lang, notableWork, The Speed of Darkness]
Generated description
The Speed of Darkness is a play by Steve Tesich that explores the unraveling of an American family's life and ideals amid the lingering psychological and moral fallout of the Vietnam War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Speed of Darkness
Target entity description: The Speed of Darkness is a play by Steve Tesich that explores the unraveling of an American family's life and ideals amid the lingering psychological and moral fallout of the Vietnam War.
  • A. The Speed of Darkness
    The Speed of Darkness is a 1968 poetry collection by Muriel Rukeyser that explores themes of war, identity, and social justice through experimental and politically engaged verse.
  • B. Set in Darkness
    Set in Darkness is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, set in Edinburgh and blending a murder investigation with political intrigue around the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament.
  • C. After the Dark
    After the Dark is a 2013 philosophical science-fiction thriller film that explores moral dilemmas through a series of apocalyptic thought experiments conducted by a high school philosophy class.
  • D. The Light That Blinds
    "The Light That Blinds" is a song by American metal band Shadows Fall, known for its melodic thrash metal style and prominence on the album *The War Within*.
  • E. Out of the Dark
    Out of the Dark is a collection of essays by Helen Keller in which she reflects on socialism, social justice, and her political beliefs.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d886cde3d481908d4d01ba88ba7eb7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3db806de48190a9ce68b40fc77a74 completed April 18, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01234e9a94819094618ba43b7d22b4 completed May 11, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01245aa7ec81909fa20befa29f590c completed May 11, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01281c8bf08190a24d77fe6af595f4 completed May 11, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.